Just after I posted this picture to share with my followers on www.Twitter.com via www.Twitpic.com – I clicked though my own link to look at the picture and see how it turned out online… it was less than 30 seconds between posting and going to see it – and 7 people had already viewed it!

This is FAST information sharing!

Twitter and Tourism Internet Marketing. Yep. You gotta.

Here’s where you can learn more about the effect and influence of Twitter.

If you haven’t met me before, my name is Douglas Lampi.

New Website Design

I’m slowly working at re-building the Quetico Internet Marketing website to reflect new technologies that offer the best advantage for Tourism Internet Marketing in 2009 and beyond.

The Slowing Economy

With the slowing economy, the Tourism Businesses with the best customer communications are going to be the ones that survive.

The most cost-effective way to communicate, of course, is the Internet.

A Daunting Task

1. your company NEEDS to do more promotions online than ever before,
2. you feel overwhelmed when you think of the cost
3. you don’t know where to start to market your own website

BITE SIZED SOLUTIONS

Promote Your Own Website!

I’ve provided Tourism Business Owners with an easy-to-read,  short, one-step-at-a-time series of email that SHOW you how to start promoting your own website.

Please visit www.douglampi.com and join the eMail Newsletter.

From – Your Online Traffic Specialist

Social Media is about connections between people.

Travel & Tourism is also about connections between people.

Social Media and Tourism can work together like hand in glove, but only a few of the early adopters are really starting to seriously consider the exciting future impact of Social Media on Tourism Marketing.

Enter Douglas Lampi – Presenting next week at the Northwestern Ontario Tourism Association (NWOTA) Annual General meeting for the second time in as many years.

Douglas will give a brief lecture on how Social Media can help Tourism Businesses build their connections, brand recognition and word-of-mouth recommendations.

Watch here for more details.

Announcing a brand new website

for Atikokan Aero!

www.atikokanaeroservice.com

Atikoan Aero – providing unique trips into the wilderness for over 25 years.

We offer a variety of trips from

fly in fishing trips

fly in hunting trips

fly-in, paddle-out canoeing

chartered float plane trips to suit your needs.

Atikokan Aero Service Ltd is located just outside of Atikokan, Ontario on Steep Rock Lake, about two hours west of Thunder Bay, or two hours east of International Falls.

Our largest customer, Canoe Canada Outfitters, who operate 15 fly-in Outpost camps in the White Otter Wilderness and Quetico Park areas.

We also fly for Tip Top Lodge, Ontario Parks, fire patrol and private individuals.

The new website for Atikokan Aero Service was created by Douglas Lampi of Quetico Internet Marketing using the latest technology in the webs most flexible and easy-to-update WordPress Publishing Software.

The new site can be updated by staff, and can easily have new WordPress Plugins added to extend the functionality of the site. Continual software updates and easy upgrades ensure Atikokan Aero’s website is always current with the best technologies, without the cost of a major overhaul for several years to come.

Atikokan Aero also created a new Facebook Fan Page to help build lasting connections and affiliations between current and future Scout groups, and the amazing adventure and learning of the Northwestern Ontario Wilderness.

Take a moment to watch some videos of a winter take off and landing with Atikokan Aero’s fantastic Bush Pilots!

Today I’m attending the Northwestern Ontario Tourism Association (NWOTA) Annual General Meeting in Nestor Falls. The image above shows where the Nestor Falls Community Centre is located.

If you are in the area – drop in! I always love the chance to meet up with camp owners and answer internet marketing questions!

We will hear the Border Committee Progress Report and receive a presentation by Canada Border Service Agency – Kevin Begin, Superintendent FF, Elmer Mainville, Immigration FF, Jim Spina, Regional Client Services Rep.

Jim Grayston from the OTMPC will present an update and Darren Envall from the National Marine Manufacturers Association has a presentation.

Jerry Fisher will close the day with an update report from NWOTA and the Kenora District Camp Owners Association.

Douglas Lampi of Quetico Internet Marketing hosting an Open House for my office location, downstairs Voyageur Mall, Main Street, Atikokan Ontario on Tuesday April 29th.

I’m giving a free presentation
- a live demonstration of:

– Ten Steps To Online Profit -
- Without Spending A Dime –

from 2-4pm and from 7-9 pm,
Tuesday April 29th.

During each demonstration, I will ask the audience for a topic – then I will follow the Ten Steps in a live demonstration!

Spending just 12 minutes per step, and without spending a dime,

• I create a place to make money,
• set up a product offer,
• and get traffic to the offer,

…within 2 hours! It is also very possible to get top 10 placements in Google within the two hours as well!

After each presentation, participants will receive a small booklet that outlines the Ten Steps – and they can enter the Contest! Each demonstration will be recorded and posted online to help the contest participants follow along the process!

It’s a simple contest – the person who follows the Ten Steps and makes the most money, wins the grand prize – valued at $1240!

Contest Closes Friday May 30th, 12:00.00 Noon, Atikokan Time.

I will hand-deliver post-card sized invitations to all the businesses in Atikokan through the week of April 21st, and I want to invite any unemployed or under-employed people who may be interested as well – I’ll post invitations in public, but tell your friends to get the word out!

Quetico Internet Marketing is your Online Traffic Specialist

Douglas Lampi provides Internet Marketing insight into more that just top Search Engine Rankings. Today, visitors should be coming to your site through many differnet sources – and your business is at risk if your main source of traffic is from Google.

An Online Traffic Specialist must have broad knowledge and actual experience publishing in all the various media formats in order to benefit from visitor sources like

video sharing sites,
podcast sharing sites,
photo sharing sites
news feeds,
blogging sites,
social bookmarking,
social networking and
special interest groups,
from joint venture partnerships,
from purchased advertising sources like PPC and interstitials,
from Blog commenting,
from article writting – as well as
from link trades and
gaining consistent top search engine rankings.

In the new world of Web 2.0 – your ideal traffic footprint should include dozens of referral sources.  Including bringing Offline sources to view your online messages.

Your Online Traffic Specialist can help you
Achieve Internet Marketing Diversification!

After I created the first internet guru watch podcast, my sister reviewed it, and she asked – “who is your target audience” – I gave her a quick answer, but, after thinking about it for some time, really, the audience is… me.

I’m doing this podcast for my own eductation, and so, you may not be on the same path as me and you may not find all the tips that I’m searching for and that I’m finding useful, they may not apply to you.

But you never know when I’m going to talk about something that could be useful for you, as I share the path of my quest.

Many of you have been thrown into this quest of learning how to market on the internet, because, all of a sudden, you busines is dependant on getting your bookings online.

And so you’ve been thrown into the internet marketing business and you’re on the same path as me now,

• Learning how to make your website convert,
• Learning how to connect with your visitors.
• Learning how to make money,
• How to make a living,
• How to sell your product over the internet

 …to people you may have never met before.

In the spring of 2008, the Internet Guru Watch Podcast is going to focus in two main areas. Mostly because of the projects I’m working on, and that I want to develop.

I’m taking some good advice from Micheal Campbell, to only bring into my marketing mix, the strategies that are going to go with will the projects that I currently have ongoing right now. Strategies that will push and add to what I’m already doing, rather than start me off in a different direction.

And so, as you listen to the Internet Guru Watch podcast through the spring of 2008, I’ll be focusing on how to set up and interconnect with people using all the social networking and social bookmarking sites that are out there.

Right now that process may seem daunting and overwhelming, there’s just so many of them, if you go to prophilactic.com, you see over a hundred of different places where you can set up a profile and start building a community.

Just the hours of registering to all those places and setting up your profile, and managing all those logins and all of those accounts, its overwhelming to start off with. But, like most hills that we choose to climb, the effort of the climb is well worth the view at the top, and it’s sure easy coasting down the other side…

The other area the Internet Guru Watch Podcast will focus on, is the process of launching an ebook – The pre-launch and the launch process, and I want to learn from Gurus who know how to set up venture partners for Launching the eBooks.

As I’ve been carefully targetting a narrow set of niche keywords, I’ve been monitoring the resulting changes in the top 30 ranking websites.

Just as before, I’ve been able to quickly grab several of the top placements for my keyword phrases.  Results are showing up where I own four of the top 10 and fifteen of the top 30 searches on my phrase – because I’m using a series of five blogs on WordPress.com, a series of five indepenantly hosted websites and a blog on LiveJournal.  In addition, I’ve been posting summaries of my blog posts to three document and news release websites. 

After all these co-ordinated posts are completed, I’ve been following directions and bookmarking the articles and the article summaries with ten or twelve popular social bookmarking sites.

I started to see by blog posts appear in the top search results first. Soon these listings are overtaken by the new release sites – and I’ve been enjoying several of the top 10 placements.  After a day or two, my hosted website pages begin to show in the top 20 to 30.  To my delight and suprize, within another day or two, I begin to see even more top rankings because of the “Echo Effect” of Social Bookmarking.

The ‘Echo Effect’ occurs when the RSS feeds from these Bookmarking sites are picked up by other sites and blogs around the internet.  Google is indexing these feeds, giving my campaign more top rankings and more links back to my original article, resulting in an echo effect of even more website traffic.

Of course… this gives me lots of new ideas…